SVB Financial Group

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SVB Financial Group
FormerlySilicon Valley Bancshares (1982–2005)
Company type Public
Industry Financial services
FoundedApril 23, 1982;41 years ago (1982-04-23) [1]
Founders
  • Bill Biggerstaff
  • Robert Medearis
Fate Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Headquarters
New York City [2]
,
United States
Key people
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$7.40 billion (2022)
Decrease2.svg US$1.51 billion (2022)
Total assets Increase2.svg US$211.8 billion (2022)
Total equity Decrease2.svg US$16.0 billion (2022)
Number of employees
8,553 (December 2022)
Subsidiaries
Capital ratio Tier 1 15.4% (2022)
Website SVB Financial Group
Footnotes /references
[3] [4]

SVB Financial Group (SVB or SVBFG) is a financial services holding company headquartered in New York City. [2] The company's main business unit was commercial bank Silicon Valley Bank, until the bank failed in March 2023 after a bank run. [5] [6] The company was a member of the S&P 500 index until March 15, 2023. [7] [8] According to public filings, as of December 31, 2022, SVB Financial Group had 164 subsidiaries. [9]

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The company's one subsidiary is SVB Capital, a venture capital and investment management subsidiary of SVBFG. [3] SVB Capital manages $9.5 billion in funds of both clients and the bank that was invested in venture capital funds. [3] [10]

Until March 2023, the company also included Silicon Valley Bank and SVB Private, a private banking service affiliated with Silicon Valley Bank that, along with its affiliates SVB Investment Services and SVB Wealth, offered client services especially catered to private equity and high-net-worth individuals. Both Silicon Valley Bank and SVB Private were placed in receivership and sold to First Citizens Bank. [11] [12] SVB Securities was sold to its management in July 2023 and renamed Leerink Partners. [13]

History

SVB Financial was founded as Silicon Valley Bancshares on April 23, 1982, [1] by Bill Biggerstaff and Robert Medearis over a poker game. [14] [15] Silicon Valley Bank was incorporated as a wholly-owned subsidiary in October 17, 1983. [1]

In 1988, the company went public via an initial public offering, raising $6 million. [16]

The company's stock price soared through the dot-com bubble but fell 50% when the bubble burst. [17] The company reincorporated as a Delaware corporation in 1999. [3] [18] Ken Wilcox became CEO in 2000 [19]

In 2001, the company's investment banking arm, SVB Securities, expanded its business with a $100 million acquisition of Palo Alto Alliant Partners, which was rebranded SVB Alliant. [20] In 2002, it formally entered the private banking business, building on prior experience and relationships with wealthy venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. [21]

The SVB Private offices in San Jose, formerly operated by Boston Private Bank & Trust Company, on March 13 following Silicon Valley Bank's collapse SVB Private, 60 SOMA, San Jose, California.jpg
The SVB Private offices in San Jose, formerly operated by Boston Private Bank & Trust Company, on March 13 following Silicon Valley Bank's collapse

On May 31, 2005, Silicon Valley Bankshares rebranded as SVB Financial Group, signaling the company's diversification away from commercial banking. [22] SVB Alliant ceased operations in 2007. [23]

In December 2008, SVB Financial received a $235 million investment from the U.S. Treasury through the Troubled Asset Relief Program. [24] The U.S. Treasury received $10 million in dividends from SVB Financial and, in December 2009, the company repurchased the outstanding stock and warrants held by the government, funding this through a stock sale of $300 million. [25]

In 2015, CEO Greg Becker indicated that SVB had yet to make immediate plans to re-enter the investment banking sector as it had before 2006. [26]

In January 2019, SVB Financial acquired Leerink Partners LLC, and renamed the business SVB Leerink. [27] In 2021, SVB acquired Boston Private Financial Holdings and merged its subsidiary Boston Private Bank & Trust Company into Silicon Valley Bank and SVB Private. [28] In 2021, SVB acquired media and telecom research company MoffettNathanson LLC. [29] In February 2022, SVB Leerink was rebranded as SVB Securities. [30]

Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

In March 2023, Silicon Valley Bank experienced a bank run and collapsed. Then Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr reported its customers tried to withdraw 81% of its deposits ($142 billion of a $175 billion total, as of the end of 2022) over two days. [31] The failure of Silicon Valley Bank was the largest of any bank since the 2007–2008 financial crisis by assets, and the second-largest in U.S. history behind that of Washington Mutual. [6] On March 10, 2023, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation closed SVB, Santa Clara, and appointed the FDIC as receiver, [5] which transferred all the bank's assets to a newly-established bridge bank. [32] The holding company was not included in the bank closing or resulting receivership. [33] It is no longer affiliated with either Silicon Valley Bank or SVB Private. [11] When the FDIC took over Silicon Valley Bank on March 10, it seized the Santa Clara headquarters shared by the bank and SVB Financial Group; as a result, the holding company moved its headquarters to its offices in New York City. [2]

On March 13, 2023, SVB Financial Group began exploring a potential sale of the bank's sister companies SVB Capital and SVB Securities. The latter's founder, Jeffrey Leerink, expressed interest in buying back the firm. [34] SVB Financial Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on March 17, one week after the bank's failure. [35] A group including Centerbridge Partners, Davidson Kempner Capital Management, and PIMCO reportedly bought a stake in the company in anticipation of the bankruptcy. [11]

On June 18, 2023, SVB Financial Group announced it had agreed to sell SVB Securities in a management buyout, led by Leerink, with funds from the Baupost Group. MoffettNathanson LLC was not included in the sale. [36] [37] In July 2023, the buyout was approved in bankruptcy court, and SVB Securities was renamed to Leerink Partners. [13]

On January 9, 2024, SVB Financial Group announced it planned to turn control of SVB Capital over to a new company controlled by its creditors. [38]

On 20 March, SVB Financial Group announced that it would sell it Indian subsidiary SVB Global Services India to First Citizens BancShares. [39]

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